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Sunday, 29 July 2012

[UPDATE: Skeptical Science has written an extensive review of the Watts et al. manuscript: "As it currently stands, the issues we discuss below appear to entirely compromise the conclusions of the paper." They mention all the important issues, except maybe for the selection bias mentioned below. Thus my fast preliminary review below can now be considered outdated. Have fun.]

Anthony Watts put his blog on hold for two days because he had to work on an urgent project.

Something’s happened. From now until Sunday July 29th, around Noon PST, WUWT will be suspending publishing. At that time, there will be a major announcement that I’m sure will attract a broad global interest due to its controversial and unprecedented nature.

What has happened? Anthony Watts, President of IntelliWeather has co-written a manuscript and a press release! As Mr. Watts is a fan of review by bloggers, here is my first reaction after looking through the figures and the abstract.